Listen: New Lauryn Hill Song "Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)"

"In an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music... but the message is still there."

Last month, Lauryn Hill signed a $1 million deal with Sony that will likely help her avoid prison time for tax evasion, Billboard reports. The deal will help her launch a new label, Observe Creation Music, and stipulates that she record five new songs, followed by a new album-- which would be her first since 2001's MTV Unplugged No. 2.0. Yesterday she posted the first of these new tracks, a cutting, rapid-fire social critique called "Neurotic Society (Compuslory Mix)". Listen below.

Just because she inked the Sony deal, though, don't think Ms. Hill is going to start censoring herself anytime soon. In a characteristically no-bullshit message posted on her Tumblr, she wrote:

Here is a link to a piece that I was ‘required’ to release immediately, by virtue of the impending legal deadline. I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there. In light of Wednesday’s tragic loss (of former label mate Chris Kelly), I am even more pressed to YELL this to a multitude that may not understand the cost of allowing today’s unhealthy paradigms to remain unchecked!